I had my first major code brown today (In an old BMW nonetheless)

"Trunk Impaired 318" (matteocscaptura)
07/13/2014 at 19:18 • Filed to: None

Earlier today I had an autocross that took place at a new location for our region which just so happened to be on a 5/8ths mile oval track. On my first run I had a bit of a moment when doing a high speed jink. I had already been off course twice so I was testing the waters with this corner and it nearly ended my day. The jink was left right left, when I swung up I unsettled the car and when I came back down the camber of the track threw my car into a slide towards the inside wall. I tried a bit of oppo but I quickly realized I wasn't recovering so I just went two feet in and hoped for the best. And boy was luck on my side, my car came to a stop less than a foot away from hitting the wall. After taking a minute to assess what had just happened I got back on course and headed in. As I went back in the Saftey Steward came up to me and asked what happened. I told him this and we decided to stop and change the course to make it safer. Apparently the new course setup worked for me as I was quick enough to win class, come second in PAX, and have the fourth fastest raw time of the day, IN A 4 BANGER BMW 318ti. Video of the code brown is below.

DISCUSSION (25)

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 19:24

If anything, you nearly crashed into a wall that said "Winner", so that's good, right?

Trunk Impaired 318 > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
07/13/2014 at 19:25

Some crazy foreshadowing there

jkm7680 > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 19:26

That was super close, Pants shitting avoided.

Trunk Impaired 318 > jkm7680
07/13/2014 at 19:28

My dad had it even worse as he was working right at the corner before where I lost control and he had to watch our car fly towards the wall

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 19:45

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 19:58

LOL DNF at 00:59.

Also LOL oven mitts!

jkm7680 > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 20:00

Ouch, That must have scared the shit out of him.

Trunk Impaired 318 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
07/13/2014 at 20:02

Did you miss the first one at 00:43? It was the same mistake for both, and oven mitts??

Trunk Impaired 318 > jkm7680
07/13/2014 at 20:02

he was less than thrilled I can tell you that much

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 20:10

No I didn't miss it.

oven mitts = gloves.. I'm guessing you're so fast you need them? :P

Trunk Impaired 318 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
07/13/2014 at 20:13

I figured it was something along those lines and I tend to have sweaty palms and since I have the gloves for karting, HPDEs etc. I might as well use them and not lose a grip on the wheel

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 20:18

I use gloves also

Trunk Impaired 318 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
07/13/2014 at 20:20

hahaha and very similar ones at that!

Jayhawk Jake > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 21:31

That looks like a terrible venue for Autocross...

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 21:37

Is there lots of decent competition out by you?

Trunk Impaired 318 > Jayhawk Jake
07/13/2014 at 21:49

we're extremely limited in what we can get for a venue, as we're probably the smallest region in the country but this was actually a pretty good one, a poor initial course design was the only real downfall today but after it got changed it was great

Trunk Impaired 318 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
07/13/2014 at 21:54

Id say the top 5-10 guys on their best days are good competition for me at least but in the grand scheme we're big fish in a little pond. In a larger region our top guys would probably be in the top quarter but I don't think all of us could compete at the top

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 22:58

woah... only 27 people? damn, that's thin competition sadly

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/pax-from-today…

Trunk Impaired 318 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
07/13/2014 at 23:00

We usually have 50 but there was another event that the rest of our usuals went to and I think poor weather kept some away. This one was more typical

http://www.glen-scca.org/Solo/2014/PAX2…

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Trunk Impaired 318
07/13/2014 at 23:06

damn... that's still kinda low....... my region normally pulls in 85 or so at one location and 120 at our other location (average numbers)

Trunk Impaired 318 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
07/13/2014 at 23:09

it is low, but we're also a ridiculously tiny region with limited venue space, most of our courses need to be two laps of a section to be over 30 seconds long

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Trunk Impaired 318
07/14/2014 at 06:29

nice still. The G Street PAX is unnaturally soft though, especially considering how good the Celica and the Focus ST and GTI are. It's definitely the best class of fighting for pax glory.

DSP and FS also are too soft for their current crop of cars. One time just jumping into a GS car gave me a top 10 pax finish when I would have "only" been in the top 25 in my M3 in STU

Trunk Impaired 318 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
07/14/2014 at 20:08

Thats also a good point, the 318ti is bone stock with all original parts save the front sway bar bushings and the tires, everything else on it is the same that came from the factory so if we replaced all the suspension and the remainder of the bushings with new parts (just OEM replacements) we'd probably do a lot better than we already do

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Trunk Impaired 318
07/14/2014 at 20:18

for sure!

Trunk Impaired 318 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
07/14/2014 at 20:19

However, we're thinking of moving up to at least STX next year or maybe even FSP